Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-06-25

An official survey is being made of the
principal mines in Tuscarora district,
Elko county, New.
The MojAve mineral belt is alive with
prospectors, and some new and rich
finds are being made.
An Oregon paper says the smelling
works to cost $50, 900 are to be erected
ct Tacoma, w. T., and will be the only
institution of the kind on the Pacific
Coast outside of San Francisco.
Miners are "workipg" the black.sand
deposits ON the Watsonville beach and
are making 81 per day to the man. The
and 10 first concentrated" and then
shipped to San Francisco to be smelted
-In the Gold Bluff mine at Downieville
he ledge has widened to two and half
feat and il still growing wider. II any.
thing the rock is richer than it was in
the tunnel above. The mill will be
started in q short time.
The Virginia, New, Enterprise says:
The old Mono placer diggings are still
spanning OUT" A sack OF dust from the
old camp was brought to Carson last
08EuT06Ys We ooW 6SA0 y
the pound at Monoville in 1859.
We understand that Silas King, late
shift boss at the North Star, will leave
in few days for Dutch Flat and inaug'
urste active operations on a gravel claim
owned by him. Mr.. King will be accom-.
panied by q crew of Grass Valley miners.
-[Grass Valley Tidings.
The total clean ups of the Bald Noun.
tain Extension Company, at Forest City,
for the past month are over Sl3, oOO,
and for April and May $25, 800. Divt'
depd No. IL, of ten cents share, ag--
Rreeatipg $1,000. was paid June LIST. A
we'll defined rich gold lead is being fol-
lowed.
A few prospectors are still in the
mountsins looking for collaborating
quartz leads. Some recently discovered
aud asssyed with favorable results will
be given q working test soon. Tulsre
county's undeveloped mineral resources
will vet add largely to her wealth.
[Tulare Delta.
The placer claim near Tom Watson's
ranch, in this valley, worked by Powers
4 Weissenburger, is paying very well
this season, quite quantity OF gold
having been already taken out. Piati'
mum in small quantities is also found in
connection with the gold, specimens Of
which are in mineral collection here in
town.-[Susanville Mail.
The copper and silver mines in San
Antonio Canon, situated three miles iron
the coast and eighty miles south OF En-
senada, are yielding exceedingly well
A 81 foot ledge of ore has been ,strucs
which yields $S5 to the ton. A number
of other valuable mines in the same canon
have recently been discovered by som'
Mexicans, and are now being extensively
worked.
The Reno Gazette says: A San Fran
cisco company with capital stock o
$500, 900 has been organized to construc
and operate smelter at Golconda, il
this State. Three, hundred Thousand
dollars has already been paid in, and tn
work of laying the foundation will b
commenced next week. IL is said tina
there are millions of tons of base ores i
Humboldt county that should pay
profit on mining and reducing.
The San Andreas, Calavera's count
Prospect of the Sd inst says: Beave
Creek Tunnel was completed on the 26t
ult. This WAS herculean task, an
three summers have passed ere tn
miners met in midway Of the tunnel an
the work was finished. A few week
more will be necessary to throw dar
across the creek to lead the water int
the tunnel. The water from Beave
Creek is great help to the main suppl
when most needed.